Tamazula

Tamazula lies in the steep western valleys of the Sierra Madre Occidental, on a river that descends toward the Sinaloa coast. The surrounding mountain country was inhabited by Acaxee and Xixime communities before and during the Spanish advance. Resistance to colonial rule affected the area around the turn of the seventeenth century; a Spanish settlement developed here in the years that followed, between the Acaxee uprising and the Tepehuan revolt of 1616.